Artificial hair piece



May 5, 1970 D. FRISHMAN ETAL ARTIFICIAL HAIR PIECE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed June 50. 1966 FIG. 3

FIG. 2

INVENTORS Daniel Frishman 8:

Robert A. Hort BY F ATTORNEYS v y 5, 1970 D. FRIISHMAN ETAL 3,509,889

ARTIFICIAL HAIR PIECE 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 30. 1966 FIG.5.

lliliiliilil M" W QMI W a m n r. N O R m m A Mn e a 8 omR O D United States Patent 3,509,889 ARTIFICIAL HAIR PIECE Daniel Frishman and Robert A. Hart, Andover, Mass., assignors to Reid-Meredith, Inc., Lawrence, Mass., a

corporation of Massachusetts Filed June 30, 1966, Ser. No. 563,631

Int. Cl. A4lg 3/00 US. Cl. 132-53 1 Claim ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A knit cover composed of stylable filaments interknit with the cover and a knit insert inserted in a forward cut out portion of the main knit cover to form a stylable hair piece for use with the head of a human being.

The present invention relates to an improved artificial hair piece and has for an object to provide an improved Wig over prior U.S. Letters Pat. 3,139,093, filed Sept. 12, 1963, and granted June 30, 1964, in that the wig of the present invention has a two-piece construction whereas the prior wig identified above is of a single uniform density of knit structure construction.

The wig of the present invention is made from two fabrics each of which is knit in accordance with the teaching of prior U.S. Letters Pat. No. 3,199,516, which was granted Aug. 10, 1965, one fabric of the two-fabric construction being knit with a more dense construction, that is, having more stitches per square inch than the other. Each fabric, however, is knit exactly in accordance with the teachings of the above patents as to the interknitting of stylable filaments into the fabric construction and a great detail of explanation of the interlocking of the filaments with the knit structure will not be described herein.

A further object of the present invention is the provision of a two-piece wig construction defined in two areas, the first area being the main cover and the second area being the front crown cover. The main cover being cut out to receive the front crown cover. Advantage is taken of the fact that each knit fabric having stylable filaments knit therewith and extending from one side thereof possesses the property of having the hair-like filaments lay in one direction, that direction being downwardly as the tube is knit upon a pile fabric circular knitting machine as described in the above two patents. The front crown cover is positioned relative to the main cover so that the direction of lay of the hair-like filaments is substantially opposite to the direction of lay of g the main cover stylable filaments. The front cover filaments having a lay in a direction forwardly of the wig or in the direction toward the forehead of the wearer of the wig. This orientation of the stylable filament lay forwardly in the front crown area of the wig permits of a wider range of styling of the wig. There is a definite advantage in having the stylable filaments in the main cover oriented so that they lay down. In this way, the wig is flat at the back of the head, this is very important in many of todays styles. Furthermore, it is very desirable in a wig that the hair over the nape of the nack stay fiat so that the bottom edge of the wig is not visible. The hair on a womans head grows downward at the back of the head and we have achieved the same thing in this new wig.

It is currently'fashionable to wear a wiglette which is simply a small hair piece placed on the crown. By increasing the density and positioning it the way we have, we are able to achieve a wig and wiglette combined.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will 3,509,889 Patented May 5, 1970 be more particularly pointed out in the claim appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views:

FIG. 1 is a photograph of a styled wig constructed in accordance with the present invention showing the same at a side elevation.

FIG. 2 is a photograph of the wig constructed in accordance with the present invention in an inverted condition in front elevational view showing the denser knit crown cover area.

FIG. 3 is a photograph of the wig of FIG. 2 showing side elevation thereof.

FIG. 4 is a mechanical drawing of the wig construction of the present invention shown in front elevational view.

FIG. 5 is a mechanical drawing of the wig construction of FIG. 4 showing same in a side elevational view.

FIG. 6 is a rear elevational view of the wig construction of FIGS. 4 and 5.

Referring more particularly to the drawings and for the moment to FIGS. 4-6, two fabrics are employed in making the wig of the present invention, one fabric of a relatively open knit structure forming the main cover 10 and the other fabric of a more dense knit structure forming the front crown cover 11. Each of the fabrics from which the main cover and the front crown cover are made are knit in accordance with the teaching of US. Letters Pat. No. 3,199,516 in which generally a sliver is prepared of modacrylic synthetic filaments commrecially known as Dynel in a denier of a range of 24-40. The fabric forming the main cover 10 is knit upon a Wildman-Jacquard machine in which every other needle has been removed and which produces a fabric having 10-15 courses per inch and 16-25 wales per inch.

The fabric from which the front crown cover is made is knit upon a Wildman-Jacquard machine as shown and described in the above two patents which fabric has 20- 25 courses per inchv and 2025 Wales per inch.

The wig shown in FIGS. 1-3 inclusive is constructed of a main cover having 12-13 courses per inch and 17-21 wales per inch while the front crown cover is of a fabric having 2325 courses per inch and 20-23 wales per inch.

The front crown cover 11 is shown inserted in a cut out of the main cover 10 where it is retained in placetherewith by stitches. The stitched seam joining'theycrown and main cover is then covered by an adhesive covered .ribbon. The ribbon is stitched along its selvages-to the -wig fabric as by the stitching 13. The base of the wig construction in its inverted condition shown in/FIGS 2-6 is provided with a tape construction 14-retained inaplace by stitching 15. As best seen in FIG. 5 at "the rear of the main cover along the base, an elastic- 16 -is shown inserted to cause conformation of the peripheral area of the base about the head of the wearer. Arnodific'ation of the elastic 16 may be employed as shown in dotted lines in FIG. 5, in which an elasticshorter in length than the main elastic 16 is sewn at each side of the wig and desig nated as 16*. The position of the modified elastic 16*?- to fall over the ears of the wearer. With the elastic}16 the side, we form a back hairline justfthe way wedo in the front and this further conceals the fact thatgthe woman is wearing a wig particularly ifs'he wished to use an upsweep in the back. The drawings in FIG. 4 6 emphasizes that the front crown cover is of ,a greater densely knit structure than the mai'n'cover 10. This is of extreme importance in achieving high style characteristics and when shown in styled condition in' FIG. 1., line 18 reveals the general area of the greater density of stylable filaments carried by the front crown cover;

3 What is claimed is: 1. An artificial stylable hair piece for .use with the head of a human being comprising (a) a main knit cover having stylable filaments interknit with the cover and extending from one side thereof, said main cover having a forward cut out portion (b) a knit insert front crown cover inserted in the forward cut out portion of said main knit cover and secured thereto and having stylable filaments extending from one side thereof and being more uniformly distributed and of greater density than the filaments of said main knit cover, and

(c) the direction of lay of the filaments extending from the outer side of said front crown cover being directed forwardly of the hair piece opposite to the rearward direction of lay of the filaments of said first knit cover.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,300,881 4/1919 Saenger 132-5 1,740,764 12/1929 Bong 132--5 3,077,891 2/1963 Lane 1325 E. BARRY SHAY, Primary Examiner G. E. MCNEILL, Assistant Examiner 

